Manitoba Plans 5 Million Bond Issue to Pay Debts
Manitoba will issue a 5 million bond after passage of a rushed bill by Premier John Bracken to fund unemployment relief, the Trans Canada Highway, and a new tuberculosis sanatorium. Maturities include 1 million in New York on April 15 and 1.9 million in treasury bills to cover bank advances to the provincial savings office. Labor critics opposed the loan and warned of growing interest obligations.
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Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
Canada
John Bracken
Pew
Bracken
New York
Treasury
Provincial Savings Office
Farm Loans Association
John Queen
William Ivens
Labor
House
Air Service To Alberta Regina May 1 Start
Canadian Airways Company Western Division will run a Calgary to Edmonton passenger and express air service starting May 1. Captain Roy Brown announced the plan at Moose Jaw. Two Fokker F-14 planes with eight passenger capacity each will operate under pilots Jarvis and Ashton to serve the Great Bear district in northern Alberta.
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Regina, Sask
Calgary
Edmonton
Canadian Airways Company
Western Division
Moose Jaw
Roy Brown
Prairies
Jarvis
Ashton
Great Bear
Alberta
Russia Places Massive Tea Order With India and Ceylon
Soviet Russia ordered 5,000,000 pounds of Indian and Ceylon tea from Indian planters on a one year credit at 9 percent interest. Russia may take tea as it wishes at current market price. Russia is the world’s largest tea consumer but its own production is limited.
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Colombo
Russia
India
Major Johannesburg Earthquake Shakes City Center
A devastating quake in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, ranks among the severest recorded. Buildings trembled in the city center and a rock slip damaged the Robinson deep mine shaft. One seismograph at the observatory was knocked out. No casualties reported.
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Johannesburg
Union of South Africa
Robinson Deep
Observatory
Trans Atlantic fares cut by White Star and partners
Great Britain largest marine firms White Star Cunard Line announce across all classes fare reductions of about 15 percent or more on trans Atlantic routes. Cunard Anchor and Anchor-Donaldson lines soon follow with Europe Canada routes cut 20 percent for first cabin and tourist. third class down 10 percent. White Star says no summer season fare increases this year.
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Lotion
England
Great Britain
White Star
Cunard Line
Europe
Canada
United States
Brussels
Cunard
Anchor and
Anchor-Donaldson
Pooley Opposes Prison Term Cuts in British Columbia
Attorney General R. H. Pooley denounces federal cuts allowing early release of prisoners without regard to province. He cites William Bagley and five bank robbery convicts, noting one hanged, two jailed in the United States, and Bagley as a fugitive after the Harrison Hot Springs hotel robbery and Okalia jail break.
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Victoria
B.C
R. H. Pooley
British Columbia
William Bagley
Pooley
Nanaimo
United States
Bagley
Harrison Hot Springs
Okalia
Beauharnois Inquiry Scope Broadened in Ottawa Debate
Senator Arthur Meighen states the Beauharnois inquiry can widen its scope to include hearings on any senators or public figures whose honor is impugned. Senator Hardy had urged broadening powers to hear G Howard Ferguson, Canadian High Commissioner, as part of the evidence.
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Ottawa
Ont
Beauharnois
Arthur Meighen
Hardy
G. Howard Ferguson
Criticism of Pension System at Manitoba Legion Convention
Sir Arthur Currie voices concern that fourteen years after the war pensions remain unsatisfactory. He calls for clearer law interpretation between the appeal board and pensions tribunals and urges government action if veterans groups' suggested fixes fail.
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Winnipeg
Man
Sir Arthur Currie
Manitoba Command
Canadian Legion
British Empire Service League
Arthur
Veterans’ Organization
Winnipeg business leader named CN director
R J Manion announces William J Christie of Winnipeg appointed director of Canadian National Railways. Christie, head of W J Christie, is a prominent Winnipeg businessman and director of several firms. He replaces S E Richards who moves to the bench.
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Ottawa
Ont
R. J. Manion
William J. Christie
Winnipeg
Canadian National Railways
Christie
W. J. Christie
S. E. Richards
Plane crash near Bagdad kills three passengers
Three travelers aboard a French aircraft en route from Damascus to Bagdad perished in a desert crash. One victim was Colonel De Reynier of Switzerland, head of the League of Nations Commission tasked with adjusting the Turkish-Syrian frontier.
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Bagdad
Iraq
Damascus
de Reynier
Switzerland
League of Nations Commission
Australia assures no butter shipment to Canada
Ottawa reports that Australia has assured Minister Robert Weir that no butter will be shipped to Canada at present. Earlier rumors of a large consignment departing Australia caused anxiety among Canadian dairy interests.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Robert Weir
Australia
Canada
Regiment Publishes War History of Forty-Fourth Battalion
Winnipeg readers will receive the official history titled Six Thousand Canadian Men on Vimy Night. The 400 page volume chronicles the 44th Battalion in the Great War, produced after more than three years of research and supported by Col. Duguid who called it a good history.
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Winnipeg
Man
Forty-Fourth Battalion
44Th
Baron Byng
Col. Duguid
Records Office
Ottawa
Committed For Trial Tells Of Plots Veregin Faces Charges
Peter Veregin was committed for trial on three charges of perjury and released on bail set at 12,000 dollars after appearing before Magistrate A. McDonald in Yorkton Saskatchewan. He will face four charges in May at the king's bench including tampering with witnesses. The charges stem from evidence given at the preliminary hearing of George Chutskoff in Yorkton Court House last November.
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Veregin
Yorkton
Sask
Peter Veregin
A. McDonald
King's Bench
George Chutskoff
Yorkton Court House
Pioneer Sheepman Dies Calgary Alta
James Turner of RE Harker Cane To Alberta Thirty Carroll Man was elected president of the Canadian Aberdeen Angus Breeders Association at the annual convention in Calgary. W F Warren of Belbeck Saskatchewan named past president. J A Brown of Forrest Ontario chosen vice president. Directors include John Brown and T A Edwards Watford Ontario H Leader Burnside Manitoba W B Lyon Dendron Saskatchewan S Henderson Lacombe Alberta R R Buchanan Pincher Creek Alberta.
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Calgary
Alta
James Turner
Alberta wheat pool guarantees to end losses in three to four years
Premier J. E. Brownlee announced in Edmonton that all danger of loss to the province from wheat pool guarantees totaling 5,536,707 will be removed in three or four years if the pool’s operations stay successful. He cited 35,000,000 bushels marketed this year and a record 37,000,000 bushels handled by the Alberta Co-Operative.
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Edmonton
Alberta
J. E. Brownlee
Alberta Wheat Pool
Alberta Co-Operative
D. M. Duggan
W. R. Howsen
European plots against Stalin target writers and officials
A Paris dispatch to Tass News Agency quoted the communist paper l Humanite saying Russian white guards were active across Europe. It cited alleged conspiracies outside Russia including plans to assassinate Maxim Gorki in Italy and Maxim Litvinoff in Germany.
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Moscow
Russia
Muscrw
Paris
Tass
I'Humanite
Europe
Joseph Stalin
Maxim Gorki
Italy
Maxim Litvinoff
Germany
Early Western sheepman Ephraim Harker dies at 78
Ephraim Harker, early Western Canada sheepman, died at his Cardston home on March 29 at age 78. He arrived in Cardston in 1889 from Utah and worked with brother Levi Harker of Magrath, a founder of the Canadian Co Operative Wool Growers Association. Sir Campbell Stuart of The Times, a British propaganda official in World War I, visited Canada before returning to the United States. Arctic ice again threatens northern shipping as ice patrol restarts after last year’s minimal ice.
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William Davison
House of Commons
Lethbridge
Alta
Ephraim Harker
Western Canada
Cardston
Utah
Levi Harker
Magrath
Canadian Co-Operative Wool Growsers’ Association
New York
Sir Campbell Stuart
the Times
London
England
Canada
United States
Dominion
Sir Campbell
Lord Northcliffe
Princess Day Ang claims 16 Sulu islands from sea dispute
In Manila a claim to 16 small islands in the Sea of Sulu near British North Borneo was filed with British and American authorities. The action was filed by Princess Day ang, sister of the Sultan of Sulu, asserting rights over the islands.
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Manila
Sea of Sulu
British North Borneo
United States
Dayang
Sulu
Postage Rate Rise Approved by Congress for Two Years
The United States House of Representatives raised first class postage from two to three cents for a two year period. The increase is expected to yield about $135 million.
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Washington, D.C
United States House of Representatives
Canadian nickel called infernally ugly by Lismer
Arthur Lismer of Toronto told the Women’s Canadian Club in Vancouver that the Canadian nickel bears an infernally ugly look when compared with an ancient Greek coin.
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Vancouver
B.C
Arthur Lismer
A.R.C.A
Toronto
Women’s Canadian Club
Mollison Plans Record-Breaking Return Flight
London aviator J A Mollison, who completed a record time flight to Cape Town, is understood to be arranging a return journey to London aimed at another record.
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London
Eng
J. A. Mollison
Cape Town
South Africa
Missing England women and girls rise in last year toll
Of 15 000 women and girls reported missing in England last year less than 1 500 were unsound for more than two weeks authorities said.
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England
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Arthur Currie
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Coastguard
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Bengal
Sir John Anderson
Lord Trenchard
Metropolitan Police Force
Sir Samuel Hoare
Sir Herbert Samuel
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